trialrun1 t1_ix2b72a wrote on November 20, 2022 at 4:54 AM

Reply to comment by CableCoShow in Why do animated action shows need to sell tons of merch to stay afloat? Isn’t the ad revenue enough? by sgavary

You throw in merch sales, and Cars is the biggest Pixar movie of all time. It's not even close.

Marvel's Spider-man deal with Sony was basically them realizing that they made so much money on merchandise every time a Spider-Man movie came out that the actual prophet on the movie itself is kinda irrelevant. So Sony gets to keep Spider-man rights forever as long as they put out a Spider-Man movie every three years or something like that.

Bobby_Marks2 t1_ix2t70m wrote on November 20, 2022 at 8:36 AM

>You throw in merch sales, and Cars is the biggest Pixar movie of all time. It's not even close.

Toy Story still has the edge.

trialrun1 t1_ix69g4g wrote on November 21, 2022 at 1:42 AM

Last time I checked was pre Toy Story 4 so it's totally possible that Toy Story as a franchise has overtaken Cars. I know that each Toy Story has out grossed the previous one in terms of toy sales while I think it goes the other way for Cars and the first Cars movie might still be the highest grossing individual movie in terms of merch for the company.